Sexton Blake
idiomcake
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cake and gingerbread
An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.
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cake crumbs
Hardly anything.
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cake walk
Something extremely easy.
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eat one's cake and have it too
Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.
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Give and take
[Cockney slang]cake
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have one's cake and eat it too
To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).
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icing on the cake
A thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad.
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let them eat cake
Used to express a profound disconnect between the elite and the unprivileged or underprivileged, suggesting a callous indifference or detachment to their suffering.